# Fractures at Trident Seafoods
> OSHA SIR `2019088785` · 8/23/2019 · CORDOVA, ALASKA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on water vehicle
- **Source:** Commercial fishing vessel
## Employer
- **Name:** Trident Seafoods
- **Location:** F/V Trail Blazer, CORDOVA, ALASKA, 99574
- **NAICS:** 311712
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee had just concluded pumping fish from the fish hold on a vessel. He climbed out of the fish hold from a fixed ladder and then slipped from the main deck of the vessel, falling approximately 9 feet backwards into the fish hold and landing on his back. He was hospitalized with a stable fracture to the back.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*